Well, allow me to retort. I think there is a "yes, but", and here it comes.
Yes that run isn't good enough but...
2 of those points dropped were at Anfield. Yes, we were 2-0 up but Liverpool have a very strong home record and with the penalty miss and Ramsdale's heroics at the end we could easily have lost it. You could see it as a point gained just as much as 2 points dropped. 3 of the points we dropped were at The Ethiad where...I mean, I was disappointed we didn't do better there but they're basically walloping everyone right now, they're in that mood and they've certainly got the measure of us. And you're counting yesterday's 3 points when the title had already all but gone. My guess is the Everton result got to them yesterday. I was talking to someone last week and said I was still deluding myself that City could yet slip. He agreed but said that the first slip had to be at the weekend. As soon as City cruised through that one the game was up. We knew it, the players knew it. And look at the players they rested and still easily got a result. We just don't have the resources or squad depth to do that.
So that leaves the West Ham and Southampton results. Both unacceptable. Although if we're talking about mentality, coming back from 3-1 down to get a point...obviously we shouldn't have been 3-1 down, but would we have come back like that in any other season of late? Not a chance.
So sure, we've had our wobbles but even with all that if we'd just drawn one of the City games then all other things being equal we'd have started yesterday 3 points ahead of them with them having a game in hand. With their better goal difference they'd still have been favourites but we'd have had a chance. As it was a point behind and them having a game in hand and them winning yesterday...
I'm not happy about yesterday, you run to the line. But we're seeing a lot of strange end of season results right now. They've won enough "must win" games this year to make be believe that our mentality is significantly better than it has been. We always knew that injuries and inexperience would most likely cost us, and so it's proven. But it's not normal to be winning 15 out of 17 as City have, they can put out a 2nd string who would win most games. We just don't have that depth and we all knew we didn't.
There's a big summer coming up. We've got the CL place now which brings the money and prestige to attract big players. We have to make a statement this summer and push on next year.